Chief Editor’s Note
Good morning, and welcome to today's paper.<br>Four threads run through today's news, and each teaches a distinct lesson in how power is checked — or isn't.<br>First, federalism's fine print: the MMDR Amendment Act shows how a state's constitutional grant can be undone by its own built-in qualifier — read every entry for its exceptions, not just its headline power.<br>Second, institutional memory: Wandhama's reopened probe and Sajjan Kumar's death both ask what accountability looks like decades after the fact — a recurring Mains theme of transitional justice.<br>Third, the limits of a single f
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In Wandhama, Four Houses Are Still Waiting for an Answer
- GS2
Turkiye's 468-Vote Bet on Ending a 40-Year War - Without Its Most Important Prisoner
- GS2
The "Shared Vision" and the Missing Road: Modi's Central Asia Visit Decoded
- GS2
The One Section That Undoes What a Nine-Judge Bench Settled in 2024
- GS2
Article 17 Bans "Untouchability" - It Just Never Says What That Word Means
- GS2
When "Permanently Shifted" Gets It Wrong: The Constitutional Stakes of Telangana's Electoral Roll Revision
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Nepal's Early-Warning Systems Worked Exactly as Designed. Hundreds Still Died.
- GS3
Washington Banned Xinjiang Cotton. A Tiruppur Exporter Is Paying For It.
- GS3
SEBI Fixed a Real Manipulation Problem. Right Now, It's Also the Reason Trading Volumes Have Gone Quiet.
- GS3
A Project That Loses 500 MW to Save Nothing: The Sharavathi Pumped Storage Contradiction
- GS3
Here's Why a Robot That Can Fight Kung Fu Still Can't Sort a Crate
- GS4
The Evidence the NIA Never Brought to Court
- GS4
The Condolence Call Nobody Could Agree Was Wrong: A GS4 Dilemma in Real Time
- Editorial
When Symbolism Has To Do The Work Infrastructure Cannot
- Opinion
India Has Perfected Big Dreams and Neglected the Small Ones That Actually Hold Them Up
- Editorial
When Warning Cannot Outrun Water: The Technology Trap in Himalayan Disaster Governance
- Essay
The Song That Was Never Quite Finished Being Written
- Ethics
The Three Hours You Promised the Court
